Shoe-holder.



QPATENT'ED JUNE 23, 1903.

' W. R. PATTERSON.

SHOE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1902.

H0 IODEL,

'ATT'OR EY.

W] TNESSES Patented June 23, 1903.

PAT NT OFFICE.

WILLIAM R. PATTERSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

SHOE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,492, dated. June 23, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM R. PATTERSON,

portable device adapted for travelers use which may be readily secured in position on any suitable support and which will firmly hold a shoe of any size without injuring it during the polishing process.

To these ends the invention consists in certain novel features,which I will now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is '11 a side elevation of a shoe-holder embodying my invention in one form. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View taken on the line mm of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows. v

In the said drawings, 1 indicates asupporting-plate, which is preferably flat, as shown,

. and which may be of any suitable form to properly support the shoe. This plate, which carries the shoe-holding devices, is provided on its under side with a clamp by means of which it may be readily secured to any suitable support-such, forinstance, as the back of a chair, (indicated at 2, in Fig. 1.) In the present instance I have shown this clamp as composed of two parallel jaws 3 and 4, extending downward from the supporting-plate 1, a thumb-screw 5 being threaded through the jaw 4 andbeing provided at its inner end with a swiveled clamping-head 6, between which and the inner face of the jaw 3 the support'2 may bereadily gripped. In order to prevent injury to the chair or other support, I prefer to face the jaw 3, as well as the Application filed January 4:, I902. Serial No. 88,433. on; model.)

clamping-head 6 and the under side of the plate 1, between the jaws 3 and 4,, with a protective covering 7, of felt or the like.

The shoe-holding devices which I prefer to employ and which I have devised for the purpose are those shown. They comprise solegripping devices and heel-gripping devices. The former consists of two arms 8, pivoted on a threaded stud or bolt 9, projecting from the under side of the supporting-plate 1 and provided with a th umb-n ut 10, by means of which the arms 8 may be clamped in any position in which they may be adjusted. Each arm 8 is provided at its free end with an upweirdly-extending projection 11, preferably threaded, as shown, and passing through a correspondingly-threaded aperture in the arm. Each projection 11 extends upward above the plate 1 and is provided at its up: per end with a head or enlargement 12,having, preferably, a nick or slot 13, by means of which the projection may be readily turned, so as to vary the height of the head 12 above the plate 1. The body of each projection 11 between the head 12 and arm 8 is preferably inclosed in a protective covering 14 in the shape of a sleeve of rubber, which will prevent the thread of the projection from coming against the edge of the sole of the shoe, but at the same time will permit of the vertical adjustment of 'the projection. These arms and their projections are intended to be so adjusted that the projections will bear against the side edges of the sole of the shoe at a point immediately in front of the narrowest portion of the instep where the sole broadens out toward the toe of the shoe, so

that when these parts are in proper position" sole at these points and the heads 12 will rest upon the projecting upper edges of the sole, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. When clamped in this position, it is obvious that the shoe is held firmly against lateral, vertical, or rearward motion. The heel-clampingv devices serve to prevent forward-motion,-thusfirmly holding the shoe in place against movement in any direction. These latter devices consist of a jaw 15, mounted to slide on the supporting-plate 1 and provided with projections or teeth 16, which are adapted to engage the front surface of the heel, as indicated in Fig. 1, in which the shoe is shown in position in dotted lines. The jaw 15 is provided with a threaded projection 17, which extends down through a slot 18, formed along the central portion of the plate 1. The projection 17 has mounted on its lower end below the plate 1 a thumb-nut 19, by means of which the jaw 15 may be readily clamped in position on the plate.

In practice, the shoe having been placed in position on the plate and the projections 11 so adjusted that they bear against the sole in the manner above described, the arms 8 are clamped in position by means of the thumbnut 10. The jaw 15 is then moved rearward until its teeth 16 properly engage the heel, whereupon the jaw is clamped in position on the plate by the thumb-nut 19. The entire device having'been previously mounted on a suitable support in the manner already described, the shoe isin position for polishing, it being customary to place a last or filling of any suitable description within the shoe during this operation. After polishing the shoe may be readily released, and, if desired, the entire holder may be detached from its support, and owing to its compactness andsmall size it is readily packed and transported. It will be observed that the shoeholding devices are adjustable to shoes of varying dimensions, so that shoes of different sizes may be firmly held in the holder irrespective of the distance between the heel and the broadening portion of the sole, and also of the width and thickness or height of this latter. It will further be noted that the front projections engage the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole immediately under the instep in such a way that they serve as an abutment to resist the thrust of the rearwardlymoving jaw 15, the soleof the shoe wedging between them in an obvious manner and the shoe being held entirely between said forward projections and the jaw after-this latter is clamped in position. This dispenses with any abutments in the rear of the heel of the shoe, and it exposes the entire rear and side portions of the heel in such a manner that they can be polished at a single operation. The jaw 15 bears against the front of the heel, which is never polished, while the front projections bear against the edge of'the sole under the broadened portion of the foot, where even if the parts in contact with said projections are not subsequently polished the fact will not show. It is further to be ob served that the clamping device is complete in' itself, so that the apparatus as a whole ready to be attached and detached is portable as such. Moreover, the clamp is located at the heel end. of the plate, so that the body of the plate projects outward from the support in such a way that the front of the shoe, which is generally polished by means of bands of fabric which are pulled down below the level of the holder, may be readily operated upon without the support to which the shoe-holderis attached being in the way, since the shoe-holder projects away from the support at the heel in such a way as to leave the front portion of the shoe clear.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself strictly to the precise details hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings, as it is obvious that these details may be modified without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a shoe-holder, the combination, with a supporting-plate, of shoe-holding devices comprising projections laterally engaging the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole to prevent lateral and rearward movement of the shoe, and a jaw adjustable on the plate toward and from said projections and adapted to engage the front of the heel of the shoe to prevent forward movement thereof, said projections constituting the sole-abutment to resist the thrust of the jaw, whereby abutments bearing against the rear exposed portions of the heel are avoided, substantially as described.

2. In a shoe-holder, the combination, with a supporting-plate, of shoe-holding devices comprising vertical projections adapted to engage the side edges of the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole of the shoe and provided with heads extending over the top of the edge of the sole, and a jaw longitudinally adjustable on the supporting-plate toward and from said projections andadapted to engage the front of the heel of the shoe, said projections forming the sole-abutment toresist the rearward thrust of. the jaw, whereby abutments bearing against the rear exposed portions of the heel are avoided, substantially as described.

3; In a shoe-holder, the combination, with a supporting-plate, of projections adjustable toward and from each other to vary the distance between them, said projections being adapted to engage. the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole of the shoe, and a jaw 1ongitudinally adjustable on the supportingplate toward and from said projections, and adapted to engage the front of the heel of the shoe, said projections forming the sole-abutment to resist the rearward thrust of the jaw, whereby abutments bearing against the rear exposed portions of the heel are avoided, substantially as described.

at. In a shoe-holder, the combination, with a supporting-plate, of shoe-holding devices comprising projections laterally engaging the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole downward from the supporting-plate at the to prevent lateral and rearward movement heel end thereof, substantially as described. to

of the shoe, and ajaw adjustable on the plate In testimony whereof I affix my signature toward and from said projections and adaptin presence of two witnesses.

ed to engage the front of the heel of the shoe WILLIAM R. PATTERSON. to prevent rearward motion thereof, said \Vitnesses:

shoe-holding devices extending above the E. O. I-IAGAN,

supporting-plate, and a clamp extending IRVINE MILLER.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 701,492, granted June 23, 1903, upon the application of VVilliam R. Patterson, of Springfield, Ohio, for an improvement in Shoe-Holders, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In lines 9 1, 109, and 123, page 2, the hyphens between the words sole and abutment should be stricken out; and that the said Letters Patent should beireacl With these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofifice.

Signed and sealed this 7th day of July, A. D., 1903.

[sEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

the forwardly-broadening portion of the sole downward from the supporting-plate at the to prevent lateral and rearward movement heel end thereof, substantially as described. to

of the shoe, and ajaw adjustable on the plate In testimony whereof I affix my signature toward and from said projections and adaptin presence of two witnesses.

ed to engage the front of the heel of the shoe WILLIAM R. PATTERSON. to prevent rearward motion thereof, said \Vitnesses:

shoe-holding devices extending above the E. O. I-IAGAN,

supporting-plate, and a clamp extending IRVINE MILLER.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 701,492, granted June 23, 1903, upon the application of VVilliam R. Patterson, of Springfield, Ohio, for an improvement in Shoe-Holders, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In lines 9 1, 109, and 123, page 2, the hyphens between the words sole and abutment should be stricken out; and that the said Letters Patent should beireacl With these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofifice.

Signed and sealed this 7th day of July, A. D., 1903.

[sEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 73] ,4912, granted June 133, 1903, upon the application of William R. Patterson, of Springfield, Ohio, for an improvement in Shoe-Holders, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In lines 94, 109, and 123, page 2, the hyphens between the words sole and abutment should be stricken out; and that the said Letters Patent should he read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the c-(tse in the Patent Office.

Signed and scaled this 7th day of July, A. D., 1903.

[SEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

